On March Break this week my family is hanging out with my buddy's family. He has been riding for years but didn't actually take his bike out at all last year. He's thinking about getting a new bike so I pull up the Toronto Spring Motorcycle Show online. I tell…

I've spent a lot of time on back roads and regional highways but have seldom ventured onto major freeways. I'm not a fan of driving in cities, I find people to be quite idiotic and when you put a lot of them together it reaches a critical mass. Put those…

My Background in Elearning: I've been elearning since the early 1990s in university. Back then it was called distance-ed or correspondence learning. I'd get a big parcel int he mail and work my way through paper based course work before sending it back. When I got my ESL teaching qualifications in…

Over heard the other day while everyone was getting ready for the first day of school: "It's clean, everything is where it's supposed to be, it's perfect!"I disagree. This is as far from perfect as a school can get. Give it a few weeks full of messy, chaotic learning and…

I'm currently crossing the Canadian Maritime provinces with my wife. She's recovering from cancer so a bike trip wasn't in the cards, but I'm using the trip as reconnaisance for future rides. On our way back to our hotel after a day on the Cabot Trail in northern Nova Scotia…

Originally posted on Dusty World. This week I brought some 360° cameras to the 2017 ECOO Conference to show how (kind of) easy it is to make immersive media for virtual reality viewers like Google Cardboard. I brought along my favourite 360 camera, the Ricoh Theta (physical controls, good shape, very intuitive to use, easy to…

First gen Tiger from the late '30sI've been finding out the history of Triumph Tigers from various places on the interwebs. The first Tigers were born just before World War 2 and were quickly put on hold when the war started. With rigid rear frames and girder front suspensions, these were…

Originally posted on Dusty World in February, 2014... From thirteen years old in Air Cadets onward I've taken leadership courses. I think I have a pretty good grasp of the mechanics, though its often hard to see my own shortcomings in the process. One of those short comings is I…

I've been told that one of the best parts of owning a Concours is the Concours Owners Group. I just signed up for a year's membership and I'm already overwhelmed by all the information in the forum.Looking at the calendar, there is a local meeting tomorrow only a 45 minute…

It's been one heck of a year. Personal tragedies aside (and they were quite epic in scale), my year in teaching has been difficult to say the least.I began the year suddenly being asked to fill the shoes of our head of computers and IT. He is a dynamic, patient,…